How Can We Trust Again?

Here’s what five and change years of a bitterly partisan, utterly opportunistic and completely self-serving Republican administration has wrought on our country, just when Americans should not be doubting our own government (AFP, 08.10.2006):

Bush Seeks Political Gains from Foiled Plot

CRAWFORD, United States (AFP) - US President George W. Bush seized on a foiled London airline bomb plot to hammer unnamed critics he accused of having all but forgotten the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Weighed down by the unpopular war in Iraq, Bush and his aides have tried to shift the national political debate from that conflict to the broader and more popular global war on terrorism ahead of November 7 congressional elections.

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His remarks came a day after the White House orchestrated an exceptionally aggressive campaign to tar opposition Democrats as weak on terrorism, knowing what Democrats didn’t: News of the plot could soon break.

Vice President Dick Cheney and White House spokesman Tony Snow had argued that Democrats wanted to raise what Snow called "a white flag in the war on terror," citing as evidence the defeat of a three-term Democratic senator who backed the Iraq war in his effort to win renomination.

Man, where to begin!?

Sadly, all I can say is that this morning, when I first heard of the news coming out of Britain, I immediately thought, Wow, just on schedule for the mid-term elections.

This is where we, Americans, are. Some of us simply cannot believe anything that this administration and its allies, whether domesitic or from abroad, tell us. I honestly cannot trust anything that even carries a whiff of the now infamous Rovian taint, since the tactics that now associated with that name so permeate the actions of this administration and of the Republican party.